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In this book, we have dealt with the superior morality of believ-
ers who lived for Allah’s good pleasure, mercy and Paradise, and
suffered much cruelty and hardship in this cause. When we con-
sider the lives of the prophets and sincere believers mentioned in
the Qur’an, we find them confronted with intense struggles, con-
tinued threats of death, imprisonment, or forced exile from their
homes and nations, slanderous attacks, and mockery. It is all be-

cause they obeyed Allah’s commandments. And, they not only
lived by the morality of the religion, but also taught, as best as it
was possible, this same truth to others. As a consequence of their
sincere and concerted efforts, many people entered faith, but still
others became hostile, and thus they were often forced to live a life
marked by much hardship.
Those who could not bear this hardship, who could not abide

by the good morality taught by the prophets, and who hadn’t the
patience required by Islam, became those who went astray, ex-
changing the Hereafter for this world.
There is a reality that must not be disregarded: Allah ordains all
hardship in order to distinguish the good from the evil, the pure
from the impure, the genuine from the insincere, and the faithful
from the irreligious. Those who maintain good conduct pleasing to

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